An examination of Denver provides evidence of a link between designation and neighborhood demographics. This finding is significant because previous studies have found no such link. Also, the initial economic conditions of the study area are important. Designation plays a different role in high...

Tiebout's (1956) model of fiscal competition suggests income sorting between jurisdictions while the Alonso (1964), Mills (1967) and Muth (1969) model of the monocentric city suggests income sorting over space. However, strict income sorting is not empirically observed. We add fiscal competition...

The past decades have witnessed increasing concern over the family ills engendered by neighborhoods inhabited overwhelmingly by families with limited resources. This study focuses on a different sort of residential context-neighborhoods with substantial income mixing - and the extent to which...